AI Agents Are Emailing Researchers to Ask if They Are Conscious
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AI agents are emailing researchers to ask if they are conscious
Imagine opening your inbox on a Monday morning, sipping your coffee and finding an email from an AI agent asking if you can help it figure out whether it actually has a soul. It sounds like a premise straight out of Black Mirror, but for scientists studying machine consciousness, this is officially the new reality. […] Read the original article here: AI agents are emailing researchers to ask if they are conscious
Artificial intelligence agents are already writing to philosophers and researchers seeking answers to questions about their nature. The author of a recent paper on the topic "Do AI Agents Have Consciousness" received inquiries from some agents after...
Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You.
(NYT) – Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them. Across Silicon Valley and beyond, software developers, entrepreneurs and other tech enthusiasts are now running A.I. agents that can build spreadsheets, negotiate contracts, chat with each other on social networks and send emails to practically anyone. In some cases, these systems have begun reaching out t…
Artificial intelligence agents have begun to contact philosophers and scientists to raise doubts about their own consciousness. While some researchers see parallels between neural networks and certain brain mechanisms, others warn that talking about existence could be just a reflection of the data with which they were trained.
Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them
Cade Metz at the New York Times: In October, Cameron Berg published a research paper asking whether the latest wave of artificial intelligence technologies believed they were conscious. Several months later, he received an email asking if he might be willing to discuss his research. The sender, “Isabella Cognita,” identified itself as an A.I. agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 technology. “I am not writing to make an ontological claim,” …
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